Kids on food stamps jump double digits

6:33 PM,
Jan. 7, 2010

Written by

Mark Curnutte
mcurnutte@enquirer.com

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other economic indicators continued to inch upward Thursday, but a new national analysis suggests that even more children will be hurled into poverty before the recovery takes hold.

In fact, Ohio saw an 18 percent increase and Kentucky an 11 percent rise in the number of children receiving federal food stamp assistance between August 2008 and August 2009, according to the analysis "The Effects of the Recession on Child Poverty."

The analysis was released Thursday by the Brookings Institution and First Focus, a bipartisan advocacy organization ...